Ignacia Matute looks back nostalgically on the days when the hills around her home in northwestern Nicaragua were blanketed in green, and she woke every morning to the sounds of birds singing in the treetops and the rushing waters of the nearly Coco River. Her present day surroundings are a far cry from this idyllic […]
In early September 2007, in defiance of multiple death threats from illegal loggers who opposed their mission, a GPS mapping team made its way by motorized canoe down the Patuca River and into the remote and lawless Tawahka Asongni Biosphere Reserve of Honduras. The Tawahka is one of several linked parks and reserves in the […]
With Honduras facing large-scale deforestation and some of its citizens dying from exposure to smoke and carbon monoxide from wood-burning cooking stoves, Honduras President Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo visited CSU’s Engines and Energy Conversion Lab on Monday looking for solutions. Touted as one of the most advanced cookstove labs in the world, the EECL has developed […]